Avatar: The Last Airbender S02E04 'The Swamp' - FULL REACTION!
Added 2020-07-06 13:26:54 +0000 UTCThe swamp is calling! This was yet another very different yet informative episode, and we are already loving this season.
Sorry about the delay by the way.
Enjoy! 💜
Comments
Like some others have said. The swamp people are inspired by southern US. Particularly the bayou/Louisiana area.
Sean Silence
2020-07-07 14:05:16 +0000 UTCThe Swamp is one of my top favorite episodes! I love what Huu had to say about how everything is connected and how there's definitely something mystical about the swamp.
DanielleM
2020-07-06 23:01:36 +0000 UTCSwamp benders are inspired by the various groups of native Americans from Florida such as the Timucua tribe.
2020-07-06 20:35:38 +0000 UTCThat was immediately obvious to me as well lol However, I later learned that the Swamp people are actually more of a hybrid group as far as real world analogies go. The accents and stereotypical behavior are definitely in that “southern US” vein for sure lol and I may be wrong, but I’ve read that their names (Due and Tho) are actually Vietnamese and the way they dress is vaguely Amazonian hunter-gather. I always loved this aspect of the show. The way the Fire Nation is analogous to Imperial Japan, Earth Kingdom to Medieval China, Air nomads to Tibetan Monks, and the Northern and Southern Water tribes to Inuit peoples is a breath of fresh air in a genre (fantasy) dominated by European history and folklore. At least the fantasy I’ve been exposed to lol
Winterson94
2020-07-06 17:55:54 +0000 UTC
